“Newt Gingrich, is, of course, unelectable” says (to pick just one example) TalkLeft in “Great News For Dems: Newt On The Rise”.
This because Newt Gingrich seems to be trending up quickly and very substantially in South Carolina, while Romney is collapsing in South Carolina and nationally too.
Thing is, I remember when we said Ronald Reagan was unelectable.
Even the DNC can make fun of Mitt Romney on the issue of taxes and his tax returns.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBLtc1vmN7I
Given what a softball Mitt lobbed at them, basically hanging himself, I wish they had hit it out of the park, but this still pretty good. The steel drum version of ‘America the Beautiful’ at the end is an inspired touch.
The Stephen Colbert surreality roadshow continues.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_99bERg0o1U
Herman Cain makes a cameo.
Lawyer Karen Sandler’s heart condition means she needs a pacemaker-defibrillator to avoid sudden death, so she has one simple question: what software does it run?
Yet it turns out that it’s impossible for her to see and understand the technology that’s being installed into her own body and upon which her life depends. Regulatory authorities don’t see or review the software either.
Despite the Australian provenance of the “Cyborg lawyer demands software source” story, this is the same Karen Sandler who is executive director of the GNOME Foundation, lives in New York, and has http://punkrocklawyer.com/.
Spotted via Slashdot.
The phone rang. “It’s Elizabeth Warren,” my wife said.
I assumed it was a recording.
It was not a recording. It was the candidate herself, charming and at once folksy and erudite, asking for help on her campaign.
How could I refuse?
I found John Battelle’s astute analysis of Google’s earnings call pretty depressing:
The lead quote had to do with Google+, pretty much, not the company’s earnings, which ended up being a miss (Google is blaming fluctuations in foreign currency for much of that, and I have no idea whether that’s true, false, or silly).
But here’s my question: When is Google going to release actual engagement numbers for Google+? Because in the end, that’s all that really matters. As I have written in the past, it’s pretty easy to get a lot of people signing up for Google+ if you integrate it into everything Google does (particularly if you do it the way they’ve done it with search).
But can you get those folks to engage, deeply? That’d be a real win, and one I’d give full credit to Google for executing. After all, it’s one thing to get the horse to water…another to have it pull up a chair and share a few stories with friends.
Battelle's Search Blog is a prime source for thoughtful analysis of what Google is doing, and there’s more in the post, Google+: Now Serving 90 Million. But…Where’s the Engagement Data!.
I found it depressing not because Google missed its earnings numbers and the stock sank 9% overnight (I don’t own any, perhaps to my detriment), nor because they are playing fast and loose with business disclosures (hardly a surprise), but because it signals to me that Google’s push to force users into Google+ will only intensify.
And I don’t like that at all.
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